The 2008 Summer Institute, July 10 - August 1, focuses on how to develop and teach lessons, units, and courses across the curriculum that infuse critical and creative thinking skills andimportant habits of mind into content instruction.

Such curricular and instructional changes enhance deep content understanding, improve thinking, and elevate test performance. There will be a special emphasis in the 2008 institute on how to enhance reading and writing across the curriculum through thinking-based learning, and there will be a special pre-conference seminar on thinking, emotions, and the will.